*warning: contains spoilers* The Walking Dead has always been, at its heart, a confronting morality play that forces us to consider, week after harrowing week, what we would do in the face of an apocalyptic terror both unending and seemingly unconquerable. Would we resort to a survival-of-the-fittest mentality, tossing Continue Reading
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Ring, ring! ‘The Bells of Saint John’ promos toll for “Dr Who”
Clara Oswald is shaping up to be one of the most intriguing companions yet if there is wonderful prequel to this week’s season 7 return episode of Dr Who is any guide. As the Doctor sits on a swing gently rocking back and forth, a wise-beyond-her-years little girl, who Continue Reading
Chicken Littles of the world rejoice: “Falling Skies” is back 9 June!
Cliffhangers are both a delirious, intoxicating blessing, and a patience-sapping curse. We crave the tension and sense of anticipation they bring us but loathe the long wait till a hopefully satisfying resolution. Falling Skies, which tells the story of an Earth plunged into apocalyptic madness by an alien invasion Continue Reading
Weekend Pop Art #1: You will want to eat up these pop culture characters
Hungry for more and more of your favourite pop culture characters? It is not usually a literal craving – chomping down on a DVD is neither practical, healthy or recommended from a dietary perspective – but now it can be thanks to these imaginatively realised food renderings of all Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 14 ‘Prey’ (review)
What a chilling, deeply unsettling episode. Just when I thought the Governor was as crazy as he could possibly get, he managed to dial up the crazy to somewhere around Jack-Nicholson-in-The-Shining levels, with Andrea (aided by a newly repentant Milton who still clings to the utterly unrealistic idea that Continue Reading
Scifi-trailer-apalooza: “Star Trek: Into Darkness”, “Dr Who”, “After Earth” and “In the Flesh”
So many trailers, so little time … And all gathered here in one handy easy-to-refer-to post! You’re welcome … STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS MOVIE SYNOPSIS: When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own Continue Reading
“The Walking Dead”: episode 13: ‘Arrow in the Doorpost’ (review)
You have to admire Andrea’s doggedly optimistic persistence. No really, you do. Even in the face of the Governor’s endlessly duplicitous behaviour, which she has witnessed firsthand but seems powerless to respond to in any meaningful ongoing way, and Rick’s unwillingness to cede an inch of ground in the Continue Reading
Royal musical chairs: “Games of Thrones” season 3 (trailer + posters)
Games of Thrones, back for a third season on 31 March (but then you’d worked that out already courtesy of the poster above right? Right), is the ultimate in epic television. Everything about the series, drawn from George R. R. Martin’s massive fantasy series, Songs of Fire and Ice, Continue Reading
“Community” and Puppet Therapy 101
They’ve been rendered as claymation models, cartoon characters and inhabited any number of pop culture parody guises and now everyone’s favourite study group will find themselves assuming puppet form! Well using them at the Dean’s behest to work out some issues they have after a fraught weekend in the Continue Reading
FOX wishes happy early renewals to “New Girl”, “The Mindy Project” and more!
In news sure to gladden the heart of any sitcom-loving fan out there (or hearts if you’re Time Lord, which is probably unlikely), Fox has leapt in early and announced the renewal of New Girl (season 3) which remains #1 with women 18-34, The Mindy Project (season 2) which Continue Reading